ath10k: fix firmware assert in monitor mode
authorRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Wed, 2 Mar 2016 14:43:52 +0000 (20:13 +0530)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Sun, 6 Mar 2016 14:31:13 +0000 (16:31 +0200)
commit8a75fc54745fd3ce9062ab1cc6429a9da9ac2a68
tree8fbb4ca508b295c74cf9360ee8e11dc1b5979322
parent99ad1cba313fc86797bca55d64e7c6c809098511
ath10k: fix firmware assert in monitor mode

commit 166de3f1895d ("ath10k: remove supported chain mask") had revealed
an issue on monitor mode. Configuring NSS upon monitor interface
creation is causing target assert in all qca9888x and qca6174 firmware.
Firmware assert issue can be reproduced by below sequence even after
reverting commit 166de3f1895d ("ath10k: remove supported chain mask").

ip link set wlan0 down
iw wlan0 set type monitor
iw phy0 set antenna 7
ip link set wlan0 up

This issue is originally reported on qca9888 with 10.1 firmware.

Fixes: 5572a95b4b ("ath10k: apply chainmask settings to vdev on creation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
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